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IVILLIAM J. IVALLIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY YULFF, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOMATIC CORNPLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,674, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed September 13, 1888. Serial No` 285,749. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, "ILLIABLI J. XVALLIS, of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Corn-Planters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, that will enable others to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates .to improvements in the class of sulky or wheel planters for dropping the seed in hills; and the same consists of certain novel features in the construction, arrangement, and operation ofthe different parts, as will be hereinafter set forth.

The machine is more especially intended as a corn-planter, but may be used in planting peas, beans, and other seeds with the same facility, and is designed to plant two rows at the same time.

Figure lis a side elevation of a planter embodying my improved features; Fig. 2, a plan; 3, a vertical transverse section in plane 3, Fig. l; Fig. 4, a vertical longitudinal section in plane el, Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a vertical longitudinal section in plane 5, Fig. 3; Fig. 6, an enlarged section and plan of one of the seed-boXes; Fig. 7, a broken side elevation of a feed-lever; Fig. S, a plan of the same; Fig. f), an elevation of a seed-box; and l0, avertical section of the same in plane 10, Fig. 9.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the several parts of the machine-frame; A A2, the sulky-wheels; A3, the axle; A, the draft pole or tongue, and A5 the drivers seat.

The seed-boxes B B are suitably supported on the frame-work in advance of the sulkywheels. These boxes are constructed with the interior offset or shoulder, a, in the seedpassage, (see Fig. 10,) the object ofwhich will be hereinafter set forth.

The standards a d2 are secured to the frame between the seed-boxes, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The transverse driving-shaft 1321s provided with j ournal-bearings in said standards and in the bracket a5, bolted to the seed-box B. On one end of the shaft B2 is eccentrically and rigidly mounted the crank-wheel a4. A

companion crank-wheel, d5, is rigidly secured to the hub of the wheel A', (see Figs. l and 2,) said crank-wheels heilig' connected by means of the rod a, by which means the required rotary motion is transmitted to the shaft B2 from the sulky-wheel A.

B3 is a sleeve orhollow shaft loosely mounted on the shaft B2 between the supportiiig-standards a o?, as shown in Fig. Cn the respective ends of the sleeve B3 are rigidly mounted the disk-wheels C C. The outer end ofthe hub b of the disk C is provided with ratchetteeth h', (see Fig. 2,) which are adapted to engage with the corresponding ratchet or clutch collar b2, rigidly mounted on the shaft B2.

The front end of the horizontal rod C2 is supported by the standard b3 and the rear end bythe bracket h4, secured to the seat standard lf, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The

vertical lever b@ Ais mounted on the rear end of the rod C2 and` is arranged within conven ient reach of the driver. Projecting upward from that part of the rod C2 directly underneath the sleeve B3 is a pin or post, d, which comes between the lugs d', (see Fig. 3,) whereby a rocking movement of the rod C2 imparts an endwise movement to the sleeve B3 and stops the rotary motion of the saine by throwing the clutch mechanism out of engagement. The spring d2, coiled around the shaft B2 and bearing against the end of the sleeve, serves to normally hold said sleeve in an engaged position, so that the same will rotate with the shaft carrying the same.

The dislewheels C C are provided on their peripheries with the recess d3. Above these disks is located the shaft C3, having collars d* d5 rigidly mounted thereon, and which rest upon and have frictional contact with the periphery of the disk-wheels. The outer ends of the shaft C3 are loosely supported in the upper ends of the arms d6 (Z7, so that said shaft may have a rolling contact and lessen the friction on the disk-wheels. The lower ends of the arms d d7 are provided with the interiorly-threaded boss 7L, with which the upper threaded ends of the angular dropping-levers D engage, as shown in Fig. The levers D pass down through and close to one side of the seed-boxes, and are prevented from having contact with the contents of the boxes by means of the tubes 7i. The lower ends of the angle-levers D are bent at right angles and terminate in the conical head 7b2, the point of the cone passing' upward from the under side into the central aperture, h3, in the bottom of the seed-boxes, the lower and gradually-enlarging part of the conical head having contact with the olfset or annular shoulder when the seed-passage is to be closed.

D are the seed-tubes, and D2 the usual runners used on this class of planters.

The arm cl is provided with the elongated aperture 71:1, so as to permit of a free vertical movement and keep from contact with the shaft B.

`The bottoms of the seed-boxes (see Fig. (i) are provided with a .number of seed-apertures, h5, the diameter of which will correspond to that of the size of the seed, so that but one grain can pass through at a time. The slot h6 in one side of the seed-boxes provides for avertical movement of the angular seed-dropping levers D.

The diameter of the disks C C will determine the distance between hills and the time of dropping the seed, so that larger or smaller. disks may be used, as circumstances require.

In operation the conical head on the dropping-lever normally closes the seed-passage, the lever being in its highest position, and so remains until the disk-wheels C C roll around and bring the recess d3 under the shaft C3, when the same drops into therccess and momentarily opens the seed-passage b y causing the lever D to drop, the seeds passing down around the cone-shaped head, the passage being closed when the disk-wheels have rotated far enough to raise the shaft Cs out of the recess d3. Thus the operation of dropping the seed is performed once in each revolution of the dropping mechanism. vlVhen the end of the row is reached, the dropping mechanism is thrown out of engagement by imparting a rocking movement to the rod C2 through the medium of the handle-lever U5.

Having thus described my in vention,what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

l. In a planting-machine, the combination, with one of the sulky-wheels7 of a crank-wheel rigidly secured to the hub thereof, the shaft B2, a companion crank-wheel mounted on one end of said shaft, arod connecting' said crankwheels, a sleeve loosely mounted on the shaft B2, the disk-wheels C C', rigidly mounted on said sleeve, the ratchet-toothed hub b, the corresponding ratchet-collar, b2, rigidly mounted on the shaft B2, and the means described for engaging and disengaging said clutch mechanism, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a planting-maehine, the combination, with a sleeve or hollow shaft provided with lugs and mounted on a rotating shaft, of the rocking rod C2, having the lever bl" mounted on the rear end thereof and' provided with the pin d near the front end, said pin engaging with said lugs, whereby an endwise movement may be imparted to said sleeve, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a planting-machine, the combination, with the driving shaft, of the sleeve D3, mounted thereon, the disk-wheels C C', provided on their respective peripheries with a recess, (Z3, the shaft C3, located above and resting on top of said disk-wheels, the arms d and dif, having their upper ends mounted on the respective ends of the shaft Cs and their lower ends provided with an interiorly-threaded boss, the angular droppin g-levers D, the upper ends whereof have a threaded engagement with said boss, the lower ends being bent at right angles and terminating in the conical head 7L?, and the seed-boxes provided in the seed-passage with the oifset a, and the central aperture, h3, surrounded by a number of lesser apertures for the passage of the seed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

lVILLlAM J. WALLIS.

Witnesses:

GEO. G. ELLows, J. B. DoNALsoN. 

